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10 Nov: Blek Book Event at SFMOMA (SF, CA, USA)

(I wrote an essay for this book. Haven't seen it yet, but now is your chance buy a copy and meet one of the stencil OGs - Russell)

Blek le Rat, the 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective will be available at the San Francisco MoMA on November 10, 2011, from 6:30 to 8:30.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard) in the Schwab Room
San Francisco, California

Join us and meet iconic Parisian stencil graffiti artist Blek le Rat as he signs copies of his new book!

"Blek le Rat's stencils distill the essence of the human struggle into poetically concise images. Blek shows clarity in his work, he makes every stylized mark count, yielding art that is at once personal and universal, economical in gesture, and bountiful in statement."

—Shepard Fairey

By RSVPing to this event you are reserving your $70.00 copy of the Blek le Rat 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective. Books can be picked up, signed and dedicated by the artist at the MoMA during the event.

RSVP via FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=230788106977769&notif_t=event_in…

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Artist News

100,000-Year-Old Paint Shop Discovered

In African Cave, Signs of an Ancient Paint Factory
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Original Article appears HERE

Digging deeper in a South African cave that had already yielded surprises from the Middle Stone Age, archaeologists have uncovered a 100,000-year-old workshop holding the tools and ingredients with which early modern humans apparently mixed some of the first known paint.

These cave artisans had stones for pounding and grinding colorful dirt enriched with a kind of iron oxide to a powder, known as ocher. This was blended with the binding fat of mammal-bone marrow and a dash of charcoal. Traces of ocher were left on the tools, and samples of the reddish compound were collected in large abalone shells, where the paint was liquefied, stirred and scooped out with a bone spatula.

In the workshop remains, archaeologists said they were seeing the earliest example yet of how emergent Homo sapiens processed ocher, one of the species’ first pigments in wide use, its red color apparently rich in symbolic significance. The early humans may have applied the concoction to their skin for protection or simply decoration, experts suggested. Perhaps it was their way of making social and artistic statements on their bodies or their artifacts.

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Historical Item

14 Oct :: AIKO (London, UK)

This friday AIKO at Pure Evil Gallery

opens 6-9pm

show runs until 13 november

http://pureevilgallery.virb.com/

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In the Galleries

The Tour Funds the Murals (Video)

I have my local public art tour set up through a DIY tour site (set up a tour in your city) called Vayable.com. They just moved offices a block away from CELLspace and the murals that I try to maintain and curate. Hard to maintain and curate with no budget, but I make it happen via profits form the tour and an amazing group of volunteer artists, builders, and neighbors.

I walked June from Vayable through CELLspace last week and gave her a tour. She made a short video of the visit.

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Stencil Videos

VIDEO: Bristol, UK ... Beyond Banksy with See No Evil

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Historical Item

14 Oct :: Alias, Others at STROKE Art Fair (Berlin)

STROKE Art Fair 2011 - Berlin Postbahnhof
West Berlin Gallery at Stroke, Oct. 14th - Oct. 16th 2011

West Berlin Gallery is looking forward to participating in the 5th edition of Stroke Art Fair 2011. The urban art fair will take place at Berlin Postbahnhof from October 14th - October 16th.

Our booth will feature works by Alias, Prost, Linda's Ex, Giacomo Spazio , SP38, Jakob Tolstrup, Rallito X, Alexander C. Barbone and Brenna, to name a few.

Stroke Art Fair - Berlin Postbahnhof - Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, 10243 Berlin

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In the Galleries

STF expo (Basel)

GUILLAUME DAEPPEN
GALLERY FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
MÜLLHEIMERSTRASSE 144
4057 BASEL SWITZERLAND

PHONE +41 (0)61 693 04 79
MOBILE +41 (0)79 467 90 62
http://WWW.GALLERY-DAEPPEN.COM

GALLERY HOURS
WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY 17.00 - 20.00
SATURDAY 12.00 - 17.00

Hi,

The Guillaume Daeppen Gallery at Bâle organizes the second solo show of Stéphane Moscato - STF after the success he met in 2010. The audience and the collectors will be able to discover brand new pieces by the artist gathering canvases and also artworks on books covers.

The Marseille based artist Stéphane Moscato uses the stencil technique in all its duality, shadows and lights, front and back. He works with the spray and the advertising image by peeling posters on the street to paste then on canvas. This process, combined with his obsession with the mechanics of body gives a aesthetics acid result that contrasts with the routine of daily art. This artist influenced by both punk-rock imagery, illustration like Blanquet and other collegues, and by urban art and stencil art provides some multiple meanings.

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In the Galleries

30 Sep :: Boruchow, Look on Lancaster Ave (Philly)

http://www.lancasteravenuearts.com/

Market Watching is a series of cutouts designed for the windows of 3939 Lancaster Avenue and is part of Look on Lancaster Avenue. See them all HERE (http://joeboruchow.blogspot.com/2011/09/market-watching.html) or see them on the Ave. The opening reception is on Friday October 30th, 6 - 10pm. Hope to see you!